appalled in the PONS Dictionary

appalled Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to be appalled at [or by] sth

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Purists said they were appalled at what they see as the vulgarisation of a 66-year-old national institution.
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Fox was appalled at what he called this extraordinary step.
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Hart is appalled by the changes which have been made in his absence, even though all his employees are delighted with them.
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He was particularly appalled to discover prisoners who had been acquitted but were still confined because they couldn't pay the jailer's fees.
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Fry is appalled at the machine's true purpose and sabotages it.
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Again it left the literary critics divided: social democrats praised its stark honesty, many others were appalled with the author's negativism.
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Appalled, he raged that he would rather die a thousand times than suffer impotently from such an insult.
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On one occasion he went to see a woman dying of tuberculosis, leaving appalled by the failings of the public health system.
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He heard his voice predict the end of the world, and was appalled.
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Shocked and appalled at his father's actions, he goes out into the world, where he becomes a bandit leader.
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